Remote Sensing of Air-Wave-Sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Dynamics

The ocean surface mixed layer communicates heat, mass, and momentum between the atmosphere and ocean interior, hosts the majority of oceanic primary productivity, and plays a key role in the evolution of the earth system. Representing variability in the mixed layer is an abiding challenge in observing and modeling of earth systems due to the multitude and complexity of turbulent processes and their interaction with atmospheric turbulence, ocean interior mixing, surface waves, submesoscale ocean fronts and eddies, as well as sea i...